Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. Businesses will be afraid to put their critical information on it because it will be exposed.

Bill Gates




VIA debuts VL700 USB 3.0-SATA Controller Print
Written by Network News Journal Staff   
Wednesday, 06 January 2010


VIA LAUNCHED THIS MORNING the VIA VL700 USB 3.0-SATA Controller, a highly integrated single chip solution that allows users to connect SATA hard disk drive (HDD), solid state drive (SSD), and optical disc drive (ODD) devices to their PC via new USB 3.0 specification ports.
 
The new controller supports data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps.  The USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) specification offers ten times the throughput available to USB 2.0 based devices.
 
VIA's VL700 supports both SATA 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps data transfer rates and also Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which allows HDDs/SSDs to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed, thereby increasing performance. Additionally, data transfer to and from SATA-based DVD and Blu-ray Disc players is supported.
 

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